EUROPE'S most powerful far-right woman has shockingly called on Angela Merkel to dispatch armed forces to Germany’s southern border to SHOOT migrants trying to enter the country.

The deputy leader of the controversial Pegida movement claimed Muslim refugees are committing “sex jihad” against women and gay men and called on people to “grab our pitchforks and fight the Islamisation of Europe”.

In an inflammatory interview Tatjana Festerling also said the Burka should be banned across the continent and claimed Western Germany is now being run as a “caliphate”, with churches being forced to remove crucifixes and kindergartens taking pork off the menu.

Her controversial remarks come amid growing unrest in Germany over the effects off mass migration, with the country having taken in more than a million refugees over the last 12 months.

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Thousands turned out for a Pegida march in Dresden earlier this month, with similar protests inspired by the far-right group being held in Calais, Amsterdam, Prague, Dublin and Birmingham.

The group, which originated in Germany, stands for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West” and has been attracting growing support amid a fierce backlash against Mrs Merkel’s open door asylum policy.

In a highly controversial interview today its deputy leader Ms Festerling urged populations across Europe to “f*** decency” and commit themselves to the “fight against Islamisation”.

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Tatjana Festerling has called for migrants entering Germany to be shot

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The Pegida deputy-leader said migrants were waging a 'sex jihad' against Western women

She said: “We don’t have time for decency anymore. If we don’t grab our pitchforks and fight the Islamisation of Europe, we are lost.

“The Muslim headscarf should be banned, and radical mosques should be closed. We need to make life uncomfortable for them.

“Migrants should be forced to register at police stations, and ultimately we need to look at deportation. If they keep crossing the border and you can't arrest them, shoot them.

“Our borders should be closed and infiltrators should be arrested or, as a last resort, shot.

“It’s about fences, it’s about infrastructure, it’s about the military. You have to be serious if you want to be taken seriously.”

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She added: “In peaceful times, we Germans like to be decent and behave nicely to foreigners. But in times like these, we need to forget about decency.

“F*** decency. This fight against Islamisation is the last battle. Islam is a twisted ideology.”

In a furious video rant the far-right figurehead also blasted her country’s “politically correct” culture which she claims is seeing the rights of newly arrived migrants prioritised over those of German citizens.”

She told MailOnline: “Germany is like an open-air psychiatric ward with the mental illness of political correctness.

“Pegida are the only ones who don’t care about being politically correct. We just don’t care. We have no scruples and no fear.

“We are on the rise all over the world, regaining territory that was lost to political correctness.

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Pegida held demonstrations against mass migration across Europe earlier this month

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Germany has taken in more than a million migrants in the last year

If they keep crossing the border and you can't arrest them, shoot them

Tatjana Festerling

She added: “Even as the migrants are committing sex-jihad against women and homosexual men, the Leftists are offering them roses.

“They care more about young Muslim men than they do about their own women. They are infatuated with their own abusers.”

However her comments were blasted by critics, who said they were a “dangerous” attempt to “whip up panic” against migrants arriving in Europe.

Vidhya Ramalingam, a fellow at the German Institute on Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation Studies (GIRDS), said her inflammatory remarks show there has been a “gear-shift” in the rhetoric being used by the far-right.

She said: “People are on the verge of panic about mass immigration, and Pegida is trying to capitalise on that.

“It’s a very dangerous moment, because when people feel out of control they resort to violence.”

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Ms Festerling’s comments were also savaged by a former Pegida leader, who defected from the group because he felt it had become “too extreme”.

Rene Jahn blasted her claims as a “pack of lies” and said they were just an attempt to “whip up panic”.

He said: “Churches are not being turned into mosques. West Germany is not a caliphate. Kindergartens are not banned from serving pork, and there is no Sharia police.

“I know how Pegida works. People like Tatjana Festerling search for a few extreme, isolated examples and exaggerate them, saying that it is like this in all of Germany. They are just trying to whip up panic.”

The row comes after the leader of the far-right AfD party said last month that Germany’s borders should be closed and migrant infiltrators shot.

A survey carried out immediately after the shocking remarks found that support for the party had rocketed to 12 per cent, making it the third largest party in Germany.

Mrs Merkel has come under growing pressure to reverse her open door migration policy in light of the Cologne sex attacks, when 1,000 migrant men went on the rampage raping and robbing women out celebrating New Year’s Eve.